jason spencer is the public information officer for harris county. that is home to houston and he joins me now by phone. thank you so much. as we're waiting for the president to land, i want to show viewers a picture of your sheriff, gonzalez, helping a child get through some of the worst flooding. we have been watching live as some of these rescue efforts have gone on with some of our reporters out in the field. how hard is it right now to keep pace with all the calls that are coming in? do you have a good sense of how many people are out there waiting to be rescued? >> i can tell you that it has been just an all hands on deck approach for several days now. our deputies from street level to the sheriff himself have been working 12 hour plus shifts and we're out rescuing folks as fast as we can. we're really grateful we had support from other state, federal and local entities, pitching in with boats and personnel, neighbors have been helping each other, just if you have an air boat, people are out picking up neighbors. i don't think it is an overstat

now the two got into a debate on facebook after representative jason spencer posted a photo of the jeffersonorial. spencer replied by saying in part continue your journey into south georgia and it will not be pleasant. spencer later clarified his comments to a georgia newspaper saying she is from atlanta and the rest of georgia sees this issue very different. >> texas just one day away from allowing people to legally carry swords. on friday, texans will be able to carry blades longer than five and a half inches long that includes swords machetes daggers, too, but it will be illegal to take them to schools, universities polling places and hospitals. >> the mind behind the music for the simpsons is reportedly out of a job. alf claussen was allegedly fired this week. he told variety magazine he was let go because producers wanted a "different kind of music." >> for the simpsons? i mean, the guy -- have we nothing left? and then there's this. finally purple shame. despite his hit song purple rain singer color was actually orange. i mean, can you stand it this morning? that's according to his sis

lawsuit filed in the deadly -- two sisters involved in the attack filed an tact against jason keller and richard spencer and 30 other groups. the sisters say they were in a car hit during the attack and they're seeking $3 million. >>> there's growing fear that two right wing rallies in berkeley could turn into at charlottesville. bay area officials are denouncing the demonstrations and working to stop them from taking place. ktvu henry lee reports. local lead ares say they welcome free speech, but not if it spews hate and intended to cause violence. >>reporter: chrissy field in san francisco, a breathtaking spot for family, and children, but not for hateful speech. that's according to san francisco mayor ed lee, other city leaders and house -- they're blasting the decision by the nation pal park service to grant a permit to a group called patriot prayer for an event at chrissy field on august 26th. >> we are not welcoming this group into san francisco to promote hate. and we think that the national park service without adequate evaluation and conditions would do just that. and would increase opportunity

spencer and jason kessler are that was notd acknowledged in the president's.he was advising uva affiliates the veryprotesting white supremacy that the university has historically been involved not just with collusion, but with actually reducing systems of white supremacy. that was unacceptable. amy: and you passed richard spencer on sunday? the was walking down downtown mall -- i was trying to get away from m the site of his 2:00 p.m. -- actually, it was jason kessler, a local activist. i was trying to get away from the site of his planned 2:00 p.m. press conference, so i was walking the opposite direction at the opposite end of the downtown mall just outside pedestrian mall. riot the police with shields going into formation. a large number of them. i thought, oh, no, this is not good. sure enough, i see, he who shall not be named, approaching toward into a stored and told the proprietors, the workers there what was going on and they spirited me out the back forth into an alleyway where i waited until things calmed down for about half an hour. this was the sec

richard spencer and jason kessler. we heard enough of their hatred spewing from their mouths.e'll be here on stand by in case counter protesters show up. i would be surprised if authorities let them speak given what happened yesterday. the woman killed by the white supremacist driver has been identified. 32-year-old heather heyer * the driver of the car is jamessed -s fields. the standard practice in charlottesville is people arrested on the weekend face bond hearings at 9:00 a.m. monday morning. he faces charges of second degree murder and malicious wounding and hit-and-run. the associated press spoke to his mother. she was unaware what her son had done. >> so this is the first you are learning of it? was there any indication this was where he was going? >> i just knew he was going to a rally. i -- we don't -- i don't really get too involved in his political views. i'm watching his cat. reporter: that tragic day capped off when the virginia state police helicopter which had been providing surveillance on the scene crashed late in the day. the victims, the pilot, would have be

expecting to hear from richard spencer and also jason cussler, two of the organizers of yesterday's.ht be able to see but cannot find up there in anticipation of that event. i'd be surprised if the city allowed us to go through because wherever they go through, counter oppressors as protesters show up and it becomes a mess. we don't want to see anything related to what we had yesterday. i was quite in downtown charlotte built or renounce and half a block away from where this terrific domestic cat of terrorism committed by white supremacist occurred yesterday afternoon when you mow down several pedestrians and back to his dodge charger up to mow down several more. the victim identified as heather haier, 32 years old, charlottesville per the perpetrator 20-year-old james fields of ohio. he's been charged with two second-degree count of murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run. yesterday "the associated press" managed to catch up with his mother in ohio who at the time of this interview was oblivious to what her son had done. >> so this is the first year l

jason kessler, the suspected attacker. prominent white supremacist richard spencer and 30 other groups. the sisters say they were in the car hit during the attack. there are right wing rallies that could turn into under charlottesville. various officials are denouncing those demonstrations as well as working to stop them from taking place. >>> local leaders say it was intended to cause violence. >>> a breathtaking spot for tourists, and, they are plastic the decision by the national park service by granting a permit to a group called patriot prayer. we are not welcoming this group into san francisco to promote hate, and we think that the national park service without adequate evaluations and conditions would do just that. >> city officials are demanding that the park service to revoke the permit, if you could be violent protests similar to the clash in berkeley and charlottesville where a man drove a car into a crowd. >>they promote hate, they promote violence, they promote all of the things that we are against here in san francisco. >>the golden gate national recreation area is part of

fields and the organizer of this weekend's roundly jason kestler play in this mika and tad were in washington also named neo nazi activist richard spencer in the lawsuit seeking three million dollars in damages general arrangements have been finalized for virginia state police pilot lieutenant j. h. colon and chipper pilot burke and bates who died in a helicopter crash while they were responding to the violence on saturday's rally the rally was in protest of removing the robert lee statue in charlottesville emancipation park. and better were moved overnight by the city of baltimore and this comes a weekend after days just days after the mayor katherine pugh announced that she would be removing them and many residents say that they were upset with her announcement that these statues shouldn't just be removed but instead destroyed here's our correspondent ashley banks with more. the sound of heavy machinery runs out between eleven thirty pm and five thirty this morning in baltimore as contractors a low didn't hold a confederate statues away from their post and attendance of baltimore mayor catherine q watch as each confederate statue was

who organized it because there are groups like richard spencer's all right and then they seem to be in charge but then we have a local fella jason kesler who was putting together a group here but then i didn't see him at the event on saturday i was there for the whole melee through the course of it but then there's also the participants on the left hand side vice mayor was bellamy who was one of the largest advocates former mayor kristen seiko still a member of city council who are very ardent supporters of moving the statue whereas then we had city councillors like ignore the mayor and kathy galvin who voted against it so it was a divided council in now it's all hung up in lawsuits you don't know when the statues go to get moved if ever the lawsuit was fairly the judge moore was very clear in his ruling it is a war memorial and it and moving it violates the law he gave the city six months to come up with. an appeal and that ends at the end of this month so somewhere in september will be the final ruling you were pepper sprayed by both sides down covering it live stream and did you anticipate that it was going to get this volati

some of the people involved in this violent protest, richard spencer, leader of the alt right movement called martin luther king jr. a fraud. jasoner, white nationalist responsible for organizing the protest. they spoke to some of the people at the rally. i want to play more of what they had to say. this is about the president ant his daughter ivanka. >> i'm here to spread ideas, talk in the hopes that somebody more capable will come along and do that, somebody like donald trump who does not give his daughter to a jew. >> so donald trump is more racist? >> a lot more racist than donald trump. i don't think you can feel about race how i do and watch that jared cutch inner walk around with that beautiful girl. >> i'm trying to use my words appropriate for fv. let's be clear. we have to be -- have to be able to have a real conversation about the fact that there is people on both sides that want a race war in this country. there were people that were in this man's group that are disgusting and violent human beings that want a race war. they love this. they love the fact their message just got out on national tv. and i -- it makes me

spencer and david duke. for him to lumped the alt-right in with those people and separate them out -- kennedy: jason kessler released a statement blaming the entire thing on the charlottesville municipal government and police department there. >> antifa has a habit of invading protests then making the police look like fools. so the police need to step up their presence at these rallies. but the altd left came ready to fight and antifa came ready to fight. condemning ideology should be easy it's important for the president to condemn the alt-right. because there are no rumors antifa supports him. wouldn't this be a good time to say you people are not with me, you are gross. and he sort of did that monday an seemed to walk it back yesterday. kennedy: what makes it even more tragic is a young woman lost her life as did two police choppers circling overhead keeping an eye on the protests. you had heather heyer's mom who made this statement. you make a point to look at it and say to yourself what can i do to make a difference. and that's how you are going to make any child's death worthwhile. kennedy: she is try